I had the last amp tubes there were and have 2 left. Dave didn't 'find' any, but is instead claiming to have had them made, which begs the question, if he cannot afford to pay people back money (or afford to buy half of what I found), then how could he afford to have crt's made... And calling them 'amplfone' tubes when they are not as a marketing angle will just add to confusion. I wpuld guess that's why ther was a page listing presales before the klov thread calling him out on doing that.
If you find an 8-liner type vga monitor, then chances are it a 90 degree tube and will work in an amplifone application. The most common crt out there is 90 degree ones and many, even cga vision pro ones could be dropped in (crt only, not anything else like yoke) I would say Dave found a supplier of crt's for those applications (visionpro/tovis/kortec) and is claiming to have had them 'custom' made. If he was having them made, there wouldn't really be a need for presales as it would probably need to be paid for upfront. Presales sounds more like a pay-as-you-go situation with existing crt's buying and reselling as orders come in. Not that that's a bad thing, but be honest. I guess claiming custom made keeps potential competitors looking into sources to a minimum.
But having said that most people want complete drop-in solutions from my experience which would mean making the hard thing to find, the yoke. If he has done that based off of Jroks work, that would be great.
He used to have a blog (no pictures of course) on receiving a production sample crt, trying the custom yoke on it..etc but has since mysteriously disappeared.
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Colin Davies" <colin.w.davies@btopenworld.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:53:49
To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Tragic 19VLUP22 tube...Please help if you can
It looks like Ram controls has has some new 'amp' Tubes made up from reading on the website ... (and he was taking pre orders for Upright / Cockpit cab repros to aparently cover the costs of the tube run a couple of weeks ago...)
So... He claims to have NEW tubes and New ? yokes to go with them.... If he has really gone to a manufacturer to make new tubes...(or has managed to sumble on a load of NOS ones)....then this is quite interesting....
He does have some good parts, and has supplied stuff to various guys om the scene.... and I'm hoping he has got his customer service issues sorted now ? (which was the main issue with dealing with the guy)
Anyone know anything about these Tubes ?
Cheers, Colin.
----- Original Message -----
From: Luke Dyson
To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Tragic 19VLUP22 tube...Please help if you can
Yep, I understated that on purpose because I have no idea how difficult it would be to take up glassworking.
I am just glad I had my tube done before he closed shop. At least it should be good for 20+ years since I won't be running it like the ops used to in the 80's
--- On Tue, 6/15/10, Karl Doe <karlcdoe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
From: Karl Doe <karlcdoe@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Tragic 19VLUP22 tube...Please help if you can
To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 10:24 AM
>> I am sure to take over the business you would need to
>> practice alot before you worked on good tubes.
>>
>> Luke
>
Looking at this http://www.earlytelevision.org/15GP22_rebuild_report.html
I'd say some practice may be required :-)
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